Devan Schowe: Captivity Sucks
"The pets tend to be the most behaviorally disturbed, I would say. They have the hardest transition most of the time into kind of sanctuary life, because with the pet trade, infants are usually taken from their mothers within a few days or a few weeks after they're born. And most primate species in the wild will stay with their mothers for at least a couple of years, if not for most of their life. So that's incredibly damaging right off the bat, because that separation is very traumatizing." – Devan Schowe
Devan Schowe is the Campaigns Associate for Born Free USA, a nonprofit wildlife…
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